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Spooky October in PDX - Page 11

post #201 of 1618
10/4/08 at 6:42pm
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Originally Posted by SleepyMamaBear View Post
Happy Birthday Todd!!!!

i am SICK.
like put me back in bed sick.
anyone else have the cold from hell?
I feel icky again today, and I think there are just several colds that are going around and we might be on the second go-round already.



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Originally Posted by PGNPORTLAND View Post
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OMG you guys!! :::

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I just won the farmer's market raffle. :: We had just gotten home and were eating lunch and they called and said we won. I was so excited and expected a nice big bag of produce which I got (apples, peaches, spinach, lettuce, onions, radishes, pumpkins, goards) PLUS I got a huge gorgeous bouquet of flowers and 6 pints of rasberries and caramel corn too!




I feel like Miss America.
That's awesome! Yay!!!
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post #202 of 1618
10/4/08 at 6:56pm
Pauline, that is so awesome!!! :
post #203 of 1618
10/4/08 at 7:22pm
Today is the last day to sign up and post your package lists for the PDX Holiday Craft Swap. The more the merrier!
post #204 of 1618
10/4/08 at 7:40pm
Just a 'lil inspiration... for not so great times. Got us girls here up on our feet anyway...
post #205 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:46am
Seven hours without a post? One would think ya'll have lives or something
post #206 of 1618
10/5/08 at 3:43am
They must all be dancing to the Pointer Sisters. And now I must go to bed... as it's WAY past my bedtime. Good night, Gracie...
post #207 of 1618
10/5/08 at 4:23am
nope i was just struggling to stay alive.
bah.
post #208 of 1618
10/5/08 at 4:51am
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Originally Posted by aolinsmama View Post

you have probably thought about this already but we used those poly window kits in our old drafty house (single pane), you can still get light through but they really helped. we also did the "window quilt" thing at night, on top of that. we tried to make it pretty, well it wasn't really... but it made a big difference!
Yep, we do that every year. Warm is more important than pretty Actually, I left the plastic plus a towel hanging over one of our windows all year and just took it down about a month ago. I didn't feel like dragging the ladder up the stairs to get it down, I guess. I should have just left it there until spring.

Our house is 85 years old, so we can't get the cheap vinyl windows. They would look so stooopid, and ruin any charm in this place. But wood or fiberglass is way expensive. blah.

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Originally Posted by aniT View Post
Latch key kid from third grade. That's now.

Before that.. I had to go to nursery school. They took us too and picked us up from school.
Me too! My mom was single and worked. I was in charge of my little sister after school from the time I was 8 yrs old. We went to a neighbor's apartment before school in the mornings.

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Originally Posted by Hedy B. View Post
That is the one Tom Robbins book I haven't read. I should look for a copy! The only one that I found kinda dull was "Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas", but that one was good after a while. Just took a little while to get going.
Oooh, I need a good book to read!

The best parts of my day Naia and Josephine dancing their naked butts off before bed. Spending the day lounging with my little family and having nothing to worry about.

An embarrassing moment from my past My sister and I spent a week on a boat with my aunt and uncle when I was 8 or 9 years old. It wasn't a yacht or anything. There was no toilet. We had to ask for "the bucket" and then my uncle would dump it overboard. I was far too mortified to do that. After a couple days of holding it, I peed in my sleep. In the morning I changed my pants, stuffed them in my bag and hoped nobody noticed.

If I had to eat only one food for the rest of my life it would be
Turkey, avocado, goat cheese and crunchy lettuce sandwich on sourdough. Maybe with cucumber, or red pepper. Or a salad with those ingredients plus strawberries? That way I'll get more than one food. :

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Originally Posted by PGNPORTLAND View Post
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OMG you guys!! :::

I just won the farmer's market raffle. : We had just gotten home and were eating lunch and they called and :

I feel like Miss America.
WOOOHOOO! That is the coolest!

By the by, I totally feel like I'm party crashing over here. But the westside thread is sparse and I can actually keep up lately.

Kristin, come join the craft swap Danielle linked!
post #209 of 1618
10/5/08 at 12:50pm
oooh, searchable database containing info on the safety of kid's toys
post #210 of 1618
10/5/08 at 12:59pm
Anyone know where we could get a good deal on firewood? Oh, and I should add, we have no truck.
post #211 of 1618
10/5/08 at 1:08pm
I don't know what a good deal is since I haven't bought firewood in years.... (and we had to split and load it ourselves.) But here is this:

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/for/866408088.html

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/grd/866291881.html (this one offers half cords and 1/6 as well.) It is also a business we use often.

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/for/866120087.html

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/for/864778479.html

Tad cheaper than the others but charges a delivery fee so it may end up being the same.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/for/863921429.html

Now this one is a deal, but you haveta get a truck and split it yourself, maybe an MDC mama has a truck and can help, or you can rent one.

HTH. Off to make breakfast.
post #212 of 1618
10/5/08 at 1:32pm
So $250/cord seems like the standard. How much wood is in a cord? Wondering if we want a cord or a half. We hang our clothes out on the covered porch, I wouldn't want it completely taken up with wood. Could be stacked up under the eaves with a tarp over it, I suppose. I don't really know the finer points of storing firewood...we always kept ours in the garage.

Not going to be renting a truck any time soon, and as for splitting wood? I don't think so.
post #213 of 1618
10/5/08 at 1:50pm
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Originally Posted by zeldabee View Post
So $250/cord seems like the standard. How much wood is in a cord? Wondering if we want a cord or a half. We hang our clothes out on the covered porch, I wouldn't want it completely taken up with wood. Could be stacked up under the eaves with a tarp over it, I suppose. I don't really know the finer points of storing firewood...we always kept ours in the garage.

Not going to be renting a truck any time soon, and as for splitting wood? I don't think so.
a cord is a LOT. we got half a cord last summer, and we still have lotttttts....
post #214 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:32pm
Ok, a LOT = 4'x4'x8'.

Oh, that reminds me, Sprog killed my tape measure. He pulled it out and let it snap back over and over until the little tab broke off through metal fatigue. I keep needing it, wondering where it is, and then remembering that it's gone. I've been in a hardware store at least twice since it broke, but didn't get a new one.

You know, Lego are such a double-edged sword. It keeps the kids busy and absorbed for the longest time, but then you have all these bricks all over the place, and you step on them and they hurt.

Oh, the Monday morning late start thing? It was a miscommunication. And I wasn't the only one affected. But it's sorted now. I love getting my dander up for nothing. Ho hum.
post #215 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by zeldabee View Post

You know, Lego are such a double-edged sword. It keeps the kids busy and absorbed for the longest time, but then you have all these bricks all over the place, and you step on them and they hurt.
i saw what i thought was a cooool tip on lego or small building toys - get a big kiddie pool and have all the legos in there for the kids to actually get INTO to build. if you have room....
post #216 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:41pm
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Originally Posted by lylawolf View Post
i saw what i thought was a cooool tip on lego or small building toys - get a big kiddie pool and have all the legos in there for the kids to actually get INTO to build. if you have room....
Good idea, but no, we don't have room. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if I could simply sweep them up, as I could in the old house, but my housemate likes area rugs, so that doesn't work.

I'm going to take in the laundry, then take the chitlins to the park.
post #217 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:48pm
Beth, did you get to catch up on any sleep this weekend? I'm glad the Monday morning thing was a misunderstanding.

We are so clueless about wood. Of course, we didn't have to ever think about warmth in Hawaii. Then we moved to a duplex that didn't have a fireplace. Then, in Winston, we cut our own. Now it seems weird to have to pay for it.

Awesome idea about the legos!
post #218 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:49pm
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Originally Posted by zeldabee View Post
Good idea, but no, we don't have room. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if I could simply sweep them up, as I could in the old house, but my housemate likes area rugs, so that doesn't work.

I'm going to take in the laundry, then take the chitlins to the park.
the other idea is just spread out a sheet...
post #219 of 1618
10/5/08 at 2:50pm
How much wood you get depends on what you want it for.

Is this going to be your main source of heat or are you just going to have a fire on occasion?

If it is your main source of heat, you need to get a least a cord I would think. If you just use it once in awhile and half cord or even a quarter should be OK.

We stored ours outside against the fence. We didn't even tarp it. Just brought a days worth or so into the garage and replaced it so we would always have dry wood. This however, was in California.

Here we only have a fake gas fireplace. Bah. I wanted a pellet stove.. but it looks like converting the gas fireplace into a pellet stove is not something WE can't do and since the stoves cost more than I thought... it looks like it isn't going to happen.
post #220 of 1618
10/5/08 at 4:53pm
I think I have bribed DH into registering.